What are essential search apps?

The traditional search workflow on the real-time Web is to type in a keyword to a search engine and then manually sort through an endless stack of search result pages. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to automatically track search results as a real-time search stream instead?

Netvibes search apps transform search into search streams: live results and updates delivered to you in multiple languages. Search apps provides you the most important stories for each topic that you're interested in following, featuring the most popular search engines

You can find all of these on your dashboard under Add Content >> Essential apps